NEPHILIM, ANAKIM & REPHAIM

[Genesis 6:3-4] Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Abba

Abba’s song “I believe in angels something good in everything I see” says it all. People believe in angels just as they believe in the good in themselves. People’s subconscious clinging to the good is unmistakable. People want to believe in something that makes them feel secure. For an inexplicable reason some want to destabilize this notion of angels being good, but are they? Angels are nether good nor bad, they are the way God made them without the free will, which requires a physical body, time and locale. God is God. Angels are angels. The question of good and bad is only an earthly matter.

You may go into many conspiracy theories and agree with those who propagate one thing over another, but the root-truth is that humanity tries to hold on the last bastion of security, which someone tries very hard to destroy. Christianity exploded to the scene because of the promises of eternal life after death. Look at the cemeteries so many graves have statutes of guardian angels. People die in peace with the assurance of being saved, going to heaven and the resurrection from the dead. Yet, someone took an enormous amount of time trying to pollute this realm of perfect peace and perfect love with Lucifer's supposed rebellion and fallen angels that taught man to sin. As if this earth is not big enough to hold human evils man had to reach also for the heavens.

I tend to believe that there is a divine intervention happening now. He does not want to loose you. He loves you and He wants you back!

The Nephilim were before the flood and afterwards. They were submissive and humble, as the angels, which God made.

 GENTLE GIANTS

Giant skeletons found in many parts of the world

When disputes and wars broke out between tribes; people used giants to be their captains just to frighten an opponent. Yes, the biblical record points in that direction; people had taken advantage of those gentle giants. I have also realized something quite interesting: giants didn't seem to be too bright, but they had more of the spiritual qualities like healing abilities; hence the word Rephaim, which comes from the word ROPHE (Hebrew for a medical doctor or healer). However, as the Eden story in Genesis 3 shows it to be God did not want Adam to remain uneducated and unintelligent. We can only learn from contrasts.

THE POWER OF EDUCATION

God educated Cain. From the time of Seth through his son Enosh people started to call on the LORD's name YHVH, but studies came later, through Abraham. But that was not yet too lofty. Only from Abraham's grandson Jacob, and after Israel were released from the Egyptian bondage that the proper education had a start.

To God's delight the 40 years of wilderness experience was set aside for education. 2000 years later Jesus goaded the Jews to gain knowledge, which started after 70 A. D. and which continues on to this day. However, Christianity exalts faith to the point of creating a blind belief as if that belief is something almost magical. Sacraments, rituals and liturgies, confessions; and to a great extent symbolism; started to play a dominant role in the church rather than education.

Jews formed schools and prized education above anything else; they prospered both intellectually as well as in business; were persecuted and often expelled.

CONTRASTS

Contrasts play major role in this as Jews went their own way and Christians developed their own form of theology. These two divergent theologies (although Judaism does not have an official theology per se) contrast each other; and to certain extent also rival. But that is exactly what God wanted.        

As in the example of Goliath the Bible suggests that he most probably was one of those amazing beings. Goliath’s brother Lahmi (account found in 1Chronicles 20:4-8) was also easily killed by Elhanan, as well as another descendant of Giants by the name Sippai he was killed by Sibbecai, an Israelite.  

Only with a cleansed mind you will be able to understand this. The giants were not evil for their mission was not to war, to destroy and bring to death, but rather the opposite, to stimulate the progress on earth. Please follow the Word of God that calls them in Genesis 6:4 the sons of God, they most likely were corrupted by the other non-Adamic tribes.

Since Genesis 15:19-20 states that the Kenite root was also found in the Rephaim. It becomes increasingly clear that the giants came to be through the clash of those two seeds. The Adamic seed (those that still remained true to their ancestral line) was slowly crossed with the seed of Cain; and with the non-Adamic seed of which the Bible does not speak about. Let us see now those mixes.

1. Eve brought forth the fruit (son) of disobedience Cain.
2. Eve brought forth Abel then Seth. Adam was not cursed directly as Nechash or Eve was, but only the ground was cursed BECAUSE of Adam’s sin. (Genesis 3:17-19) From this line come Abraham, Jacob, Judah, David and Jesus.
3. Cain is mixed with non-Adamic tribes, which already existed and most likely evolved from earlier forms of life that God created before ‘TOHU V'VOHU’—chaos of Genesis 1. (When we carefully read Genesis 1 we see that FIRST heaven was already created, in the first statement of the Bible.
4. Then the chaotic was set into order, in other words, was separated and placed in its own category: light governed the day, and darkness the night, great waters below governed the seas and waters above the sky etc.
5. In Genesis 1:26 God creates the spiritual human Adam and Eve as one soul.
6. In Genesis 2:7 out of the ground God fashions the physical human being.
7. The physical Adam was split into two. Eve became the other physical being. This is the reason for cleaving to each other because originally and spiritually they were one.
8. Now we see that spiritual properties were also distributed among all peoples just as God Himself planned. This plan we now investigate. No one knows who is who; only God Himself does. By their fruits you shall know them (Mat. 7:16-20). Sons of God—offspring of Cain and Seth—mixed with other peoples, this mix resulted in the birth of giants. (Note the fact that not all were gigantic.)
9. Intermarriage continued. Primarily the biblical account deals with one genealogical lineage. The Bible presents us then with Noah’s descendants just to show that God WATCHES OVER THE PATRIMONIAL LINES. Abraham was also mixed, but the PREDOMINANT LINE was the Adamic one. Then we have the formation of God’s chosen people.

Conclusion. All have the possibility to be righteous. This righteousness God watches over and then decides how to deal with us. He may choose you if you choose Him.        

GIANTS' INBREEDING & ANGELIC LIKE QUALITIES

The giants remained as giants, but because of inbreeding they gradually were vanquished and disappeared. The sons of God were of a normal stature, but when they entered the non-Adamic earthly women the result was not the same. The Adamic - angelic lines acted differently in each instance. Since angels in heaven have different sizes and appearances it is only logical to deduce that angelic genes, which passed on to Adam later on appeared in the offspring intermixed with the non-Adamic tribes. Among them most likely were people with other qualities than size.

It is not hard to imagine that all intellect, vision, artistic and all qualities of revelation were also very evident in those beings. (In heaven angels appear in different sizes, some have one pair of wings, others have three pairs. Some are very tall others human-like. Each angel has a specific function and so they are dressed according to each function. Some have long hair some have short; some have blond hair others brown and black.

Once the primitive tribes were mixed with the Adamic race, music, architecture, inventions of sorts and most likely writing had their start. After Cain settled the land of Nod we have the appearance of arts and the creation of bronze and iron tools, which were also formed into weapons.
 
[Genesis 4:21-22] His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe. As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron…

Angels are the messengers of God’s wisdom, knowledge, beauty and the like. Angels transmit inspiration, they are worshipers, helpers, servants, and bearers of good news.   

It was through Abraham that all nations were going to be blessed. Abraham knew his kind and his God hearing abilities were obvious.

Whenever power and rulership is involved the evil nature kicks in. People who were told to multiply and subdue the earth did exactly that, but big families had naturally more influence over the smaller ones. These families became clans and tribes and then nations with their own traditions and cultures. Once this happened tribal wars were frequent. This bitter opposition and bitter strive drove the ancients to bloody confrontations in which they used giants.

A giant, whom I call ‘Adam-Malach’ a ‘Human-Angel’, was not meant for war, but to bring divine knowledge to earth.

[Romans 8:14, 19-21] For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

In Carnac France, among the uniformly set up immense granite stones, we find a site suggesting that the round stone structure might once had been an astronomical observatory. It is not a mystery to me since I love the Bible I see that the ‘Anashim-Malachim’ (People-Angels) were there too. On the ‘Golan Highs’ we find enormous stone structures some scholars assumed them to be some ancient altars, but how these stones were elevated and transported into position remains a mystery. Enormous foundational stones weighing hundreds of tons were used in the building of Solomon’s temple. Obelisks weighing thousands of tons were used in building the Baalbek Temples in Beqaa Valley in today’s Lebanon.

According to Estfan Doweihi, the Maronite Patriarch of Lebanon: ‘Tradition states that the fortress of Baalbek... is the most ancient building in the world. Cain, the son of Adam, built it in the year 133 of the creation, during a fit of raving madness. He gave it the name of his son Enoch and peopled it with giants who were punished for their iniquities by the flood.’ (Source: A.F. Alford, 'The Phoenix Solution', 1998, Hodder & Stoughton.)

That’s just an old tradition, but as all legends and traditions contain specks of truth and grains of false understanding so also is the case here. Flood came not because of giant’s evildoing but rather because of the evildoing of earth’s entire population. That Cain came back and settled Canaan is a biblical fact; and that the king Og of Bashan was a giant we know also for the biblical text shows it to be so. We also know that Hiram of Phoenicia built Solomon’s temple. Several massive stones bolster the Temple mount; they are estimated to weigh around 500 tons each. They were discovered during the excavations along the Western Wall.

When we tie all these loose ends we conclude that giants were most ingenious, with angelic like qualities and most likely they knew the laws of levitation and were able to manipulate gravity and could reverse it. The qualities were Adam’s and his children until they joined other peoples.    

As a point of interest let me bring some estimates of the stones that were used in the building of those enormous structures. The three foundation blocks ‘The trilithon’ in Beqaa Valley in the nearby Baalbek temple have the following dimensions: The largest is 65 feet in length, the second 64 feet and 10 inches; and the third 63 feet and 2 inches. They are all 14 feet and 6 inches in height, and 12 feet in thickness. Each block is therefore 350 cubic yards and they are estimated to weigh 750 - 1,000 tons each.

Noah found favor in God’s eyes. Let’s say on the scale of one to ten Noah was six percent righteous and instructed his family in the same, while according to the same scale the rest of the world did not measure up. There was simply too much evil in the world and this was the imbalance. The seed of Cain unfavorably tilted the scales in the direction of the tares and forced God’s hand.

Out of Noah, his wife his sons and daughters-in-law God initiated a new breed of people, the people that contained three lines and one was predominant; hence also the determining factor in our planet’s survival.

Today, if Kenites (weeds) had their way they would choke up the righteous seed, oppress and enslave. God hates oppression and slavery. The unrighteous, greedy, violent and the selfish dies from the self-inflicted wound anyway; while it is the meek (the gentle) that inherits the earth (Matthew 5:5). 

In a long run the righteous wins and in the short run the unrighteous seems to prosper, but his days are painstakingly numbered. The tares' mission is limited only to this earth. After the Great Judgment Day—the harvest—they are burned up and shall be no more or will serve as a fertilizer for the filed that revitalizes the seed’s production (Mat. 13:30).

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Our development in the area of science, technology, astronomy, magnetic fields, medicine etc, would not have any start without the Spirit of God passed on to us through the Adamic race and subsequently through the ‘Anashim-Malachim’. The giants were here before the flood and afterwards. Mind the fact that they escaped destruction, but did they? The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward… (Gen. 6:4). Apparently they had their own means of transportation we do not know about. But if we take into account genes then their genes existed in the members of Noah’s family and had appeared again.

Angels are also preachers of good or bad news (Malach also means messenger). Angels REPRESENT THE LORD and they are as the Lord Himself; for the Lord does not have an image or a body to behold so before the time of Jesus the heavenly Father appeared through an angel.

In Judges 6:12-14 we read about an angel who spoke with Gideon and Gideon called Him the Lord. (14) The Lord looked at him and said, “Go in this your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?” The Lord did not speak much and did not answer Gideon’s specific questions, but commanded him to go and deliver Israel from the hand of the Midian. In Judges 6:20-23 the angel—the Lord speaks again and performs a sign, then in the next verse he vanishes and frightened Gideon cries. Alas, o Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face. And the Lord said to him, “Peace to you, do not fear; you shall not die.” Gideon sees an angel, but the angel does not speak, but the Lord.

The Lord also can speak to and through a human as long as that human identifies his or her lineage with the angelic Adamic line; otherwise God would be speaking to some evolved animal.

After the angel’s visit Gideon’s ears were opened and after the angel went away Gideon could still directly communicate with the Lord.

In Judges 13:6 we read about a man whose appearance was as the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. This messenger announced the conception of Samson and commanded the woman to abstain from wine, strong drink or any unclean food. In verse 13 the angel said, “Let the woman pay attention to all that I said.”

The power is secreted in a detail. Since angels are, and MUST be detail-oriented, otherwise they could not be used of God at all; they really have no other choice but to say what God says. (I think that they do not use will for they have none, they are like a recording of God's will, which they play out to those on earth.)  It is easy for angels to obey for they dwell in the time-less sphere. God, all at once, installs His own program with all details and they are made plain. We had to wait for the computer age to understand it all. (Do I whet your appetite to become like an angel again?) The moment we sharpen our obedience to maximum, God will speak and visit us for we shall be ready to do His bidding.

Finally, in order to emphasize my point, I want to turn back to the Book of Judges, but this time to the beginning of chapter 2. Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim and he said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers…” An angel comes and says, “I have brought you up…” Did this particular angel do this or was it the Lord Himself? Jesus also said that if you accept those that He sends you accept not them but Him. Do you see this oneness? Jesus of His own accord does not send anyone, but it is the Father (Jn. 5:19). No wonder that all angels are often translated as messengers, angelic or human. But is a human really a human the way we have been taught?

You can access the animal in you or you can access the angel in you therefore this segment is dedicated to do just that; to awake your spiritual senses; just as He has awakened mine.

[Malachi 2:7] For the lips of a priest, should preserve knowledge and men should seek instruction from his mouth for he is the MESSENGER (ANGEL) of the Lord of hosts.

Most teachers of righteousness are as God’s angels and therefore should be treated as such. Jesus went as far as stating 'they are gods' (Jn. 10:34) provided they hear God’s voice and obey; thus they are subject to the one God and are also one with God.
   
GENETICS

When one interacts with the unusual, one pays attention to details. Thus, some were called Anakim, people with long necks. The Rephaim were known as shadowy figures. The Emim provoked fear, so their names were equated with horror and terror. The name Zamzumim referred to tribes that made noise; they were perceived as evil and frightful.

When God sent spies to Canaan, upon seeing the giants, some of them trembled in fright. Joshua and Caleb, however, were not afraid. They seemed to be quite amused, for the fear of the Almighty God was already upon all the inhabitants of the land. Joshua and Caleb did not perceive the giants to be evil or aggressive. That perception was in the other spies’ heads. Both Joshua and Caleb had a different spirit, which usually attaches itself to an unusual gene (Numbers 14:24). Genes act like tent pegs holding down the genetic makeup/tent. Great spiritual legacy can be created right now through this knowledge.

With Dr. Lahn’s permission (a geneticist at the University of Chicago) I’d like to emphasize some aspects of his research. Dr. Lahn worked with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research to construct a novel theory about the origins of the Y chromosome, which is widely used today to determine ancestry. Lahn’s paper on the recent evolution of the human brain asserts that new versions of two genes are currently spreading through the human population, and that these genes are more prevalent in some geographic regions than others. He has speculated that these genes may be linked to brain size and intelligence and wonders if the mutations—one of which took place roughly 40,000 years ago, the other, 5,800 years ago—correlate with the development of art, written language, and the founding of cities. And he stepped on more than a few toes when he noted that, geographically speaking, these changes had occurred pretty much everywhere except sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Lahn examined the DNA of 1,184 people around the world, although not in racially mixed areas like North America, Russia, and Australia. He estimated that one undamaged variation, microcephalin haplogroup D (V1), first appeared around 40,000 BCE and has since spread to about 70 percent of humans. A second variant of the gene, abnormal spindle-like microcephaly, associated haplo group D (V2), arrived more recently, around 6,000 BCE, and has since spread to 30 percent of humans. It is most common in Europe and the Middle East.

I call the abnormal gene “unusual” or “unique,” for it arose at the same time the great mix also occurred when God’s new creation and its genetic pool collided with people of a completely different genetic makeup.

TWELVE FINGERS & TWELVE TOES

Mind another fact, in the Bible—in every place where a giant appears like Goliath, Lahmi his brother, a man with 12 fingers and 12 toes, king Og of Bashan and others—the Israelites quite easily defeated them. We are dealing with different genes that clashed sometimes producing strange things.

In the past, while my mind was still filled with the devil consciousness I have imagined them to be the devil’s seed. I was influenced by the sensational wild imaginations of those who believed that Satan copulated with Eve and from this union came Cain and from him fleshly devils. If that were so then Eve lied with an animal (cattle). Again, if that were so then Cain was part a reptile. And again, if that were so then his wife in Nod was also strange looking… and the endless line of speculations gets weirder with time. For some it is easier to believe in anything grotesque than the truth. It is easier to accept an alien invasion on earth and their supposed creation of humans than God the Spirit and His angels. Why our minds so often drift away from the Truth is because of our ancestry, which unless we part with through repentance will only drag us deeper into the mystical and unexplained.

The man with 12 fingers and 12 toes seemed to be the only one of his kind. My mother, a hospital head nurse, witnessed several births where women gave birth to inhuman looking monsters. The doctors quickly disposed of these grotesque looking babies and hushed it all up. I will never forget what my mother told me. As we were going through villages and towns delivering court orders to people suspected of coming in contact or being already infected with venereal diseases; she told me about their source, of which the doctors knew well. It is known that the Canaanites, among many other perversions had also practiced bestiality. Venereal diseases can be traced back to pre-Israelite peoples of Canaan.

When Joshua and Caleb crossed over Jordan they quickly disposed of several giants. In Kiriath-arba (Hebron) Now, the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba for Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war (Joshua 14:15).

All giants, Nephilim, Anakim and Rephaim easily fell before Israel. They have built enormous structures and very high and thick impregnable wall. Now, we can choose to believe that they were the offspring of some aliens or an offspring of Cain and Seth after the clash of different genes. Genetic mutations and variations have much to do with the appearance of twelve fingers and toes. Additionally, there is no biblical depiction of any incredible violence or ruthlessness of those giants. The more we study the Bible the more we see that they were unusual and very special gigantic people. Once you choose to think that indeed they came to be the result of a genomic clash; you will rest. Many of us carry giants’ properties, but we have prejudiced ourselves against them by constantly imagining that they appeared as a result of union between “the fallen angels” with human women. Yet, Jesus said that after resurrection we shall be like angels and we won’t marry. Thus our bodies will no longer be fleshly but indeed celestial.

[Luke 20:34-36] And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; for they cannot even die anymore, because they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
 
The sons of God can’t marry nor produce physical offspring. And just as we see that in Luke 3:38 Adam is called God’s son then his sons were also. In the same way as Jesus said to Mary after He rose from the dead he said, Jesus said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God (Jn. 20:17). “My brothers and My siblings…” These were the only words Jesus spoke—after He rose from the dead—in reference to us being His brothers, a term that encompasses all genders for in Christ genders no longer play any role (Gal. 3:28). Only after resurrection, after the price was paid through the released power of redemption we have been adopted back as God’s children.

[1John 3:1-3] See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

As the spiritual Adam came down from heaven and God made fresh new genes from the ground (a figure of speech) so also his heavenly genes were passed on to subsequent (mixed) generations. The Bible traces that gene and so should we also, but it is not the natural element we are after but the spiritual one. Anything physical only identifies something spiritual.

ANGELIC FEATURES

Prophet Ezekiel in chapter 10 verses 8 speaks of Cherubim with hands under their wings that had the FORM OF A HUMAN HAND. Logically, for the reader’s sake, the prophet suggests that he saw other hands, which did not resemble human ones. Ezekiel also saw wheels and other things, which he was not able to explain in human terms.

In Isaiah 6:2 the prophet sees angels with six wings. With one pair they covered their face, another pair their feet and the third pair of wings they used to fly.

Why were the giants easily defeated? My answer is simple: just as the Philistines used Goliath as their champion to frighten the Israelites so the Canaanites did the same. It written portrayal of giants implies that the normal-sized people used giants to their advantage.

[1Samuel 17:10-11] Again the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together.” When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

The Philistines gathered their armies for battle and then they used Goliath only to frighten Saul and his army and thus subjugate Israel through fear. Fear is an old tactic, but David did not buy it. God’s finger was on David and he knew better. From David’s example we can learn much; why was he not dismayed and greatly afraid as Saul was?

[Numbers 14:24] But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land which he entered, and his descendants shall take possession of it.

Adam had a different spirit than all other earth-roaming people, (like the Neanderthals). So, David had Adam’s spirit and the Lord liked it. We go back in time and we spot Joshua and Caleb who had different spirit than the ten other spies who caught the fright disease and which they gave to the rest (Num. 13). As a result that entire generation had to die during the 40 years of wandering. God favors His Spirit in us and us when we tap to His Spirit and boldly act on it. We see scriptural consistency and logic. The better we know the Bible the more accurate picture we are able to paint.

When we count the lifespans of Adam’s descendants we add up several thousands of years. Those that hold on to the gap theory, a Lucifer’s imagined rebellion and a dark-ages type of a period, etc., try to substantiate their theories. But once we understand Cain’s Nod, his wife and the Kenites who settled Canaan we make all zigzags straight again. 

The extra-terrestrials were on this earth, but these were angels-like beings created by God in the Garden of Eden. The offspring of Adam, Eve, Abel and Seth was permitted to enter women of different kind and the purpose was to stimulate progress. Did God succeed? The answer is yes, most certainly. The ancient structures testify of this success, our cultures and the technological development owes deep thanks to the Adamic race from which, thanks to Israel and the Bible, no human would ever develop.       

 
Again, if angels are the ministering or SERVING spirits whether in the spirit body or physical garment (which the human body really is) then it should not be surprising that their human offspring was also be of a softer disposition. If Cain was the devil, therefore evil, then Abel was soft. Abel’s or rather Seth’s seed was gentle. Cain’s seed was aggressive.

The Jewish people of the pre WWII time were too soft and they went to the slaughter like little lambs. Out of this remnant of lambs God raised for Himself lions to establish the state of Israel and to fulfill His eternal plan. Today within the Israeli government we witness the struggle between ‘hawks’ and ‘lambs’. The Nation is divided between the soft and the hard. The process continues. But when you travel to Antarctica you must protect yourself against the extreme cold by wearing thick and warm clothes. In the same way the Creator wants us to have thick skin but soft hearts. That is also the reason why we must maintain defensive forces, for aggressors keep on scrutinizing your every move.

GIANTS’ DISAPPEARANCE

Sixteen kilometers east of the Sea of Galilee in the western part of the historic Bashan plain of Israel are the ruins of the Gilgal Rephaim. It is five concentric rings made of an estimated 42,000 tons of black volcanic basalt stones wedged together. It is also often called the Circle of Og. “Og the King of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth at edrei” (Joshua 12:4). In Genesis 14:5, we are told the Rephaim inhabit the place called Ashteroth-karnaim. About ten miles from the rings is the site of an ancient Canaanite city called Ashtaroth. Deuteronomy 2 mentions the Rephaim who were as large as the Anakim (v. 10). About the size of the people of Bashan we read in Deuteronomy 3:11. Bashan’s king Og was the last of the great Rephaim. His iron bedstead was kept at Rabbah, and measured thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide.

ARCHEOLOGY TODAY

According to a press clipping, dated Nayarit, Mexico, May 14, 1926, Capts. D. W. Page and F. W. Devalda discovered the bones of a race of giants who averaged over ten feet in height.

In, June 22, 1925, and the New York Herald-Tribune, June 21, 1925. A mining party, it is reported, found skeletons measuring 10 to 12 feet, with feet 18 to 20 inches long, near Sisoguiche, Mexico. The Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1927, says that explorers in Mexico located large human bones near Tapextla, indicating a race of “gigantic size.” Press accounts say that the skeleton of a gigantic man, with head missing, has been unearthed at El Boquin, on the Mico River, in the Chontales district. The ribs are a yard long and four inches wide and the shinbone is too heavy for one man to carry. "Chontales" is an Indian word, meaning “wild men.” In the late 1950’s during road construction in Homs southeast Turkey, many tombs of Giants were indeed unearthed. These tombs were 4 meters long, and when entered in 2 cases the human thighbones were measured to be 47.24 inches in length. They calculated that the person who owned this Femur probably stood at fourteen to sixteen feet tall. A cast of this bone is seen at the Creationist museum in Texas.

Flavius Josephus, the noted Jewish historian of the first century A.D., described the giants as having “bodies so large and countenances so entirely different from other men that they were surprising to the sight and terrible to the hearing.” And he adds that in his day, the bones of the giants were still on display.

CLOSING POINTS

God’s sons carried quite a different spirit than all other peoples on the planet. People like Neanderthals were also made out of the ground, but were not infused with that same intelligent spirit, as were Adam and his descendants. Cain infused those other people with a higher life-energy, which roused several sleeping faculties like higher IQ and the growth of bigger brains. Cain activated technological progress as well as new warfare tactics; currency creation like gold and silver, which in turn instigated trade. Just as Joshua, Caleb and later David did not fear the giants the same is with those who know the Truth. They do not easily fall prey to anything frightening, they know more and know better.

[Proverbs 28:1] The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Dr. Joseph Luxum. Book excerpts: "Truth & Illusion the Last Reformation" Copyright (c) NWP

SOVEREIGN GOD & SATAN

WHEN THE WOMAN SAW
 
[Genesis 3:6] When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

When Nechash said to Eve (Verses 4-5) “You surely will not die for God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” he spoke of consequences and an outcome. Also he actually did not lie for the eyes of Adam and Eve were indeed opened and they have realized something brand new.

When God spoke about the Noah’s flood the word for death (Gen. 6:17) was different (גוע, gava), which means to breathe out and expire. MUTH and GAVA are those two intriguing words we will explore. Nechash spoke to Eve and he actually asked her, “Indeed has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” Insinuating that perhaps ‘you have misunderstood Him.’ And since Eve was not yet a separate person--but still part of Adam when God gave the first commandment to that one unit called Adam--the transmission of a clear understanding was faulty. And that in turn is possible because the YES and NO feeling were not yet created in Adam and Eve.

She answered in vague terms (verse 3-4): From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is IN THE MIDDLE of the garden, GOD SAID, you shall not eat from it or touch it, lest you die. Obviously she did not know which tree was forbidden; and what ‘forbidden’ really meant she did not yet comprehend. This MIDST or MIDDLE is an area where both trees were located. It is possible that both trees were found near each other in the middle of the garden, but to eat of the Tree of Life was not forbidden.

Now, that was no trick, because as the text later reveals that after their transgression they were driven out of the garden so that they would not eat of the Tree of Life and live forever in their transgressions. God did not want transgressors to live on earth forever. So in God’s awesome wisdom He let them out for their own good.

Just as we school our children and want them have a better education so is our Creator who gave to us His thought about it. Educated genes travel on to subsequent generations just as the uneducated ones do also. Adam and Eve had to go through an education process until they would repent and overcome, just like Enoch did in the seventh generation after Adam. But Enoch did not stay on Earth. We lose the proper perspective on life when we get attached to just the physical things, but Enoch was attached to the Lord.

[Joshua 23:8] But you are to cling to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.

Only God knew good and evil, but this consciousness was not yet in Adam and Eve. Did God want us to know it? Of course! Why sending Nechash and why enticing us in the first place? Why placing two trees next to each other? God is Sovereign and He remains the chief intelligent designer. He made us according to His image and likeness so that we would cleave to Him and love Him from our will, which attracts God’s special spirit (Numb. 14:24). This process of becoming increasingly like Him continues, and Eve’s conversation with Nechash proves it.

Eve’s mental abilities were still childish for she confused those two trees by recalling only one, the one in the MIDDLE of the garden.

The moment transgression occurred man understood what appreciation means, gratitude, praise, glorifying and extolling.

Adam and Eve had realized that something went awry. They had experienced shame. The desire that was first created in Eve to reach for the fruit also released sexual and very new desires for each other. How could they replenish the earth with their kind and yet remained in Eden’s blissful, innocent and childlike state? 

Mission accomplished. The Sovereign One continues to teach us, which besides theory often involves a practical education, which is only possible on earth and when we are still in our physical bodies. Spiritual beings learn nothing; they are, just as the great I AM is, but with the exception of knowing TOV and RAH. This knowledge had to be transferred to us but only down below. The reason for it is clear: God created all things, which includes matter, time, light and darkness and distances. In the spiritual realm these are nonexistent. Here we must reform our mind in our grasp of spiritual dimensions, which the word “dimension” does no justice at all because in His world there is only one dimension or factor. Anything on this planet can cause harm and pain, which transgression, sin, wickedness and iniquities produce.

SATAN’S TRUE MISSION

Nechash, the angel we understand to be Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). These names of Nechash, Nahshon and Nehushtan show the natural adaptation of the meaning given to a shining brass.

Nechash spoke to the woman intelligently and seductively. Satan’s mission was to CREATE A DESIRE for the tree, which wasn’t there yet until he appeared. Satan spoke the truth and it truly happened as he said. (This statement would contradict the former understanding of John 8:44 had we not earlier explained who the first devil was.)

Adam and Eve did not die immediately, physically, but spiritually by being separated from God, which was not permanent and this they did not yet understand. They had not realized that a separation from God was at all possible. After they transgressed they knew for they experienced the reality of God’s words. Besides this knowledge they knew much more. After this “blessed” event (blessed because now we have the revelation of what Jesus had done on Calvary) their relationship with God was then initiated and anchored in time’s unfolding motion.

The Universe is established on one law, the law of NEED. Without need there is no divine intervention, therefore God always creates a need to satisfy it.

THE FUNCTION OF CURSES

Since the personification of evil, Satan was used to seduce, only his image was cursed and turned into a serpent. ONLY THE PHYSICAL AND THE EARTHLY CAN BE CURSED. Curse has no meaning in heaven. 

Genesis 3:14 speak of the serpent as being cursed more then all the cattle and beasts of the field. This exemplifies the fact that anything physical and anything that moves on the earth physically can be cursed. Anything spiritual leaves all curses behind. A curse is associated with pain and suffering, bitter affliction. Animals have been cursed too, but not as the serpent who kills its pray with deadly venom. But even in the natural, one can build immunity against this venom, how much more in the spiritual; therefore the physical must be first (1Cor. 15:46) for it serves as a picture of things we must still learn.

GOD’S LOVE & EVIL

God is love so why would He deal with His people in a wrathful way? Evil did not come from heaven, but as it has already been explained, from anything physical. There are no spiritual stones to be hurled at anyone. No need for houses or warm clothing shielding us from cold. If I am cold and you are warm I want what you have, but the way one might go about it can be evil.

Satan is not evil because He is God’s angel and not the monster we have made to be as if in his own right. Satan is no king and has no kingdom. Evil did not fall from heaven, but started on this physical planet earth.

[2Samuel 22:26-27] “With the kind You show Yourself kind, with the blameless You show Yourself blameless; with the pure You show Yourself pure, and with the perverted You show Yourself astute.

God’s wrath in heaven would have no purpose, but it has beneficial purpose in a realm where wrath is quite common—the earth. The purpose of wrath is renewal even that of a bushfire. God’s plan was to make us know wrath and appeasement; violence and peace; distress and tranquility so that we might choose and choose well.

God is love and He wants to be loved not by His angels—who do not have free will but are completely subordinated to God and do only His will—but by us. Angels do not have any personal desires; they only execute God’s desires. We have desires and therefore the key to immortality is the release of that original desire God created in us, but for Him and Him only. When this desire tilts the scales in His direction He will fall in love with you and completely absorb you. The key is already in your soul. Because we have shifted our desires away from loving Him His jealousy over us flares up. In order to appease His jealous wrath He sent His firstborn Son Jesus. The God of peace (Rom. 15:33) seeks peace in every area of our life. The ending word in Aaronic Benediction (Nb. 6:22-27) is Shalom peace, why? There is no greater blessing in this life but God’s complete peace. God’s assignment for us is to create peace on this planet, which is not possible without its opposites. Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons of God (Mat. 5:9).     

[James 4:5] He jealously desires the Spirit, which He has made to dwell in us

So that’s what happened in Eden. Adam and Eve had to learn this, but as the record points out only Enoch got it.

THE BIRTH OF CAIN

Genesis 4:1 begins with Eve giving birth to Cain and she added, with the help of the Lord, or rather (original Hebrew) from or by YHVH - the Lord. Cain and Abel were God’s sons. There is no real tradition either in Judaism or Christianity that Cain and Abel were twins. However, the original Hebrew text implies one conception, but two sons, “she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man of YHVH and she continued bearing…” As it was the case with Jacob and Esau, it could have had been the same with Cain and Abel. Later, Abel was replaced with Seth.

Cain’s genealogy disappears while Seth’s genealogy is faithfully recorded all the way to Luke 3:23-38 where it is written, the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. Adam was the first God’s son and Jesus was the Son of God. Adam’s sons were the sons of God. Cain was also God’s son, but he went astray and became a tare instead of fruitful seed.

Some speculate that Eve had sex with Nechash the latter serpent from which union she bore Cain. But that would be bestiality, on account of which God drove the Canaanites out of their land (Ex. 22:19; Dt. 18:9-12). For I, the LORD, do not change. (Mal. 3:6) Also incest is evil and God abhors it (Lev. 20:12). So Cain’ marrying his sisters is completely out of the question.

God taught Cain. Perhaps, this is the only place in the Book of Genesis where God directly taught someone. Although chapter 3 was the very first teaching in contrasts, behavior, the way of pain, which sin is and curses, but in chapter 4 we have God’s direct teaching of Cain.

[Genesis 4:7] If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.

“You will be happy when you do well and all curses will melt away.” God said, “You are to be an overcomer and master over the way of pain, which sin is.” This was the first teaching and the first sin outside the garden.

Note: There were other people outside of Eden (that perhaps evolved), but the Bible does not deal with those other roaming bands of human-like people, but only with the evolution of Adam’s family. This evolution had not much to do with physical features but rather the cognitive faculties.

Adam’s family still lived in Eden, but no longer in God’s garden. God’s presence was in the Eden region and He was very close to this unique and very special family. In Eden God spoke with Cain who did not listen, but went and told Abel what he had heard.

[Genesis 4:8] Cain told Abel his brother. And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

Thus Cain became the first murderer. When he turned his back toward his dead brother God stopped him in his tracks again. The education continues.

[V. 9-12] Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground. Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”

“I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” was the first lie, but more like illusion in which lies are usually found. No one ever bluntly lies, but camouflages all lies in some good sounding pretense.

[John 8:44] You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies (and of all liars).

[1John 3:8-12] The one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother. For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

If the apostle John writes in both places about the real devil then why would we disagree, and go into some fantasy where we find no beginning? With the help of the Book of Genesis, which Jews of Jesus time knew quite well, we know now about the first murder, the murderer and liar—Cain.

God said, (Gen.4:10)“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground. And again a curse falls on Cain. (11)“Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. (12) When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.” (13) Cain pities himself and protests saying, “My punishment is too great to bear! (14) “Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and (כל כול kol-kol all and anyone) whoever finds me will kill me.” Obviously, that anyone was not from his own family, but from outside. (15) So the LORD said to him, “Therefore (anyone, kol-kol means all, whole entirely) whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him. (16) Cain left God’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden and any trace of him seems lost. Cain’s genealogy is not found the Bible, but he mixes his genes with the descendants of Seth. However, in Genesis 15:19 Kenite is the first root of Canaan. So obviously Kenites settled Canaan. Cain married in Nod and not in Eden. So the devil is made of human genes and walks on the ground; he is the roaring lion.

[1Peter 5:8] Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

If he (the devil) were not on the ground then how would we be able to defend ourselves against a spiritual, cosmic and a completely invisible being?

MOSES & ZIPPORAH

Moses married Zipporah and his father-in-law was a Kenite. Not all Kenites are bad. They were skillful merchants, great organizers and forgers of metals; and through them gold and silver became valuable. The marauding Ishmaelite tribes traversed the continents and enormously enriched themselves through their trade. Ishmaelite and Midian people were also called Kenites. Because of Moses, Kenites, although officially not one of Israel’s tribes, they were part of Israel especially Judah.

[Numbers 24:21-22] And he looked at the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, “Your dwelling place is enduring, and your nest is set in the cliff. Nevertheless Kain will be consumed; how long will Asshur keep you captive?”

[Judges 1:16] The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up from the city of palms with the sons of Judah, to the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

Kenites have no concept of blood covenant and nothing of spiritual matters, salvation and life eternal. They seem to despise these things, but because they do not have any understanding of these things they stay nonreligious.

[Exodus 4:24-26] Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and threw it at Moses’ feet, and she said, “You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me.” So He let him alone. At that time she said, “You are a bridegroom of blood”—because of the circumcision. Later, Zipporah leaves Moses and takes his sons with her back to her family in Midian.

GOAT DEMONS

Earlier we have shown that the Kurgan people and other pagan tribes worshiped good and evil gods, male and female, but many also “worshiped” their idols with sexual orgies.

[1Kings 14:24] There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations, which the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

King Asa repented and thorough reformation followed. The old trash must give way to something new and better, and if that never happens the consequences inevitably will become disastrous.

[1Kings 15:11-12] Asa did what was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father. He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols, which his fathers had made.

We move on further in time and come to the apostolic period. The gospel of Jesus Christ is being preached among pagans in cities like Ephesus and Corinth.

[1Corinthians 6:9-11] Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Just as some of us were but no longer are, the “no longer” speaks of change and reformation. Apostle Paul ends this chapter saying,

[V. 17-20] But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

God joined Himself with us and seeks an ever-closer fellowship. He is reforming our mind and freeing our soul from religious trash we have too readily consumed, which causes indigestion and unnecessary pain. 

[Leviticus 17:7] They shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat demons with which they play the harlot. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations.

The old idols are demons of today. Idolatry establishes strongholds in the subsequent generations. God abhors idolatry, which the pagan nations still reel in.

[Deuteronomy 32:17-18) They sacrificed to demons that were not God, to gods whom they have not known, new gods who came lately, whom your fathers did not dread. You neglected the Rock who begot you, and forgot the God who gave you birth.

Those who pay attention to this trash and are very much preoccupied with the devil and generally with anything evil depart from the faith.

[1Timothy 4:1] But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons.

All that is needed is a desire for purity that is directed toward our Creator and His ways. Then His faith sets one free. The cleansed temple is then ready to entertain the new guest.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Since Nechash did not come on his own, but was sent by no one else, but the one who created him, then he had to speak the truth with the God-given voice just as Balaam’s donkey did. Since Nechash was a cattle, a beast of the field, his voice was not human. If we insinuate that he was a thief and sneaked into the garden from outside as another (pagan) god then we remain pagan and have no business of even reading the Bible.

Nechash’s mission was accomplished for which the Almighty had sent him. Angels are ageless and immortal. The same angel that spoke to Balaam through the donkey spoke to Eve and the Hebrew text in the book of Numbers specifically calls him Satan. Let us recall the text once more.

[Numbers 22:32 KJV] And the angel of the LORD said unto him. Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? Behold, I went out to withstand (to Satan) thee, because thy way is perverse before ME.

Three important aspects: Firstly, it is the angel of the LORD; hence, sent by YHVH, so the angel does not speak from himself. Secondly, God is compassionate even upon animals and man can be cruel to them. Thirdly, the angel come to satan - to oppose - Balaam (with sword in hand v. 23) because Balaam’s way was perverse—contrary to God’s. Balaam’s way was wicked not toward the angel, but toward God who sent the angel. That angel was Satan for the Hebrew text reads it so. Anyone opposing God’s way provokes Him to wrath and then He sends Satan to deal with anyone who perverts the LORD’s straight way. That is a complete reversal of thinking, isn’t it? But there is also such a thing as being given over to one’s own ways with no hope of return. 

Satan in the garden spoke of their eyes being opened and of not dying. Adam and Eve did not die because their eyes had to be opened first and then learn contrasts. They sow consequences of their actions and thus were encouraged to choose wisely, but by then outside the garden, yet still in the Eden region where God’s presence was. Mission accomplished. 

It is not only wise to understand this and then detach ourselves from any burden of animosity directed against Satan—as it has been the case for millennia now—but to know God’s purposes and His true nature.

We have shown biblical patterns regarding Cain and his descendants, the devil and Satan, one is a man and the other is God’s prosecutor. Satan’s mission is one and God completely supervises all things He created, His angels including Satan. But what the tare, the devil or Kenite does is up to man’s whims, deviousness and will, which is given only to the humans. By separating these two and understanding their activities we will recognize biblical terms and then gain greater clarity.

Dr. Joseph Luxum. Book excerpts: "Truth & Illusion the Last Reformation" Copyright (c) NWP
  

THE GRAY AREA OF ILLUSION

[1John 5:18] We know that no one who is born of God sins; but He who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him. 

Illusion is temporary and it functions only in this domain of time. Those who play with illusion do that to intimidate and thus subjugate. Outside of this physical and time-restricted realm illusion is nonexistent. Therefore, those that walk according to the flesh carry illusory properties, which can be easily taken advantage of. Those that walk according to the Spirit, not only do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, they sin not and carry no illusory properties. To better explain it lets use metallic dust that clings to a magnet. The minuscule dust particles are almost invisible, but they become visible when accumulation occurs. The same is with people who use illusion, pretense and skillful theatricals in order to lure and snare pray to their illusion like spider webs. By knowing people’s aspirations and even dreams one sets up a stage of entrapment to take advantage. There is money to be made from foreign flesh and the mystique of sex, artistic abilities or entrepreneurial business prowess. 

The classical get-rich-quick scheme is a plan to acquire high rates of return for a small investment and since greed and the desire for higher social standing is an integral part of human psyche it is often quite easily manipulated.

Charles Ponzi, after whom the term Ponzi scheme has been coined, operated such fraudulent investments. It works on luring potential customers by offering higher returns than other investments in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. This fraudulent investment operation uses other people’s supposed investment funds to pay illusory profits to the other novice investors from the money paid by other rookie investors. Perpetuation of the high returns requires an ever-increasing flow of money from new investors to keep the scheme going. 

Illusion plays a larger role in religion where regulation is minimal or nonexistent and anyway an aversion to the law, in Christianity, creates a mindset that wants to be free yet it is enslaved to illusion. The constant play with law and grace keep wisdom at bay. On one hand we have been set free from the law of sin through Christ yet on the other hand we seek some form of control for human misbehaviors. We trumpet salvation by grace and not by works as if being saved is the Alpha and Omega in itself. As a result child molesters, rapists, thieves and even murders often quote this verse, “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her” (John 8:7). Yet as we read further Jesus said to the adulterous lady, “Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more” (John 8:11). Therefore, the ability to not sin is in us already.    

WE DO NOT LIKE SATAN’S MISSION

Satan’s mission is to pay back evil for evil, to put it loosely. Satan is sent to mislead, to oppose, to accuse, to test and even kill. When this subordinated to God angel enters human hemisphere he also enters the realm of illusion, which God created to test us with. The devil (as it was explained earlier) used illusion to tempt Jesus with the riches of this world and the short-lived illusory power. Satan on the other hand tested Jesus in the Truth as it has been conveyed to us through in Scripture. But again, Satan’s work of illusion is for this realm only. Hence, as long as we are physical we will deal with these metallic-like particles of illusion that either cling or are drawn away and keep away from us. Many want to be rid of this chastiser (Satan) that they completely disbelieve in his existence, which is a mistake. It is like a child that hates parental discipline and wants to be rid of, not his or her mischief, but that of parents’. It leads to the throwing of the bath water with the baby. 

In the past I have also been manipulated and yes taken advantage of, but I have purposely allowed it because of the kind of people I was associated with. By way of education I went with them into the desert of tests, just like Moses went with the children of Israel. I spotted a lie and its bearers right off the bat, yet I hoped for the best. Oh how disappointed I was. This gentle inner Holy Spirit leading is so delicate that one must be truly refined in order to come to the firm resolve of yielding to Him. Now, as I have matured, and have repented, my perceptions have changed I repel those that would like their shaming luck on me. By bathing in the Truth one arrives; it’s just a natural consequence. Even reading about these psychological dimensions do change us. “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you” (John 15:3) Jesus said, and then concluded in John 17:17 by saying, “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” (John 17:17). The Truth liberates us from illusion and eventually sets us apart, which in essence is what sanctification really means.  

The other tendency is to make Satan completely evil in our mind and God completely good; so good and sweet that with our new theology we do not ‘permit Him’ to be no longer a person. If you get angry and God made you to reflect Him, and from time to time He gets angry and you do too then where is the problem? We call anger sin, but it is not the anger itself, but rather where it leads. When anger is arrested in time it leads to nowhere, but in many cases it even helps to improve things. Controlled anger can be beneficial for it can lead to getting rid of cancerous and deadly things, but there is a much better way. We can overpower anything adverse with the heavenly peace. Peace heals and mends broken things. To put it simply, all adverse things are not of peace but of war. Just as one country can be at war, somewhere else another country enjoys tranquil peace; therefore, peace and war are territorial. Heaven has neither territory nor borders and to imagine that does not take illusory perceptions but rather truthful. Anger is typical to earth. God’s anger only manifests itself on earth in the physical dimension, but never in the heavenly and timeless sphere. In order to be free of any elements of illusion this concept must be fully grasped. 

Let’s take Aspirin or Ibuprofen, which can be beneficial. Someone said, do we have a deficiency of aspirin is that’s why we need it from time to time? – No, we don’t, but stress constricts blood vessels. Anything that compresses is of pressure and God gave us the knowledge as to how to relieve pain, but that’s just a temporary help and not a permanent healing. So, peace is of decompression and war is of compression. So in the same way truth liberates and illusion binds. Seek peace and pursue it (1Peter 3:11) and I would add “through any means” until a time when we are perfected, sanctified in God’s truth.     

God has a temperament, so do we. If we have no temperament we have no passion; and if we have no passion we can’t serve the Lord on this planet. The driving force is our passion and compassion. He is decisive, not passive; and He chooses passionate people. Our decisiveness, and our determined choice is what our heavenly Father loves. 

Watch Jesus in the temple who told us about His consuming zeal for the House of God. We have emasculated ourselves with sugary self-righteous teachings far withdrawn from reality, making them impractical and inapplicable. We feel and express righteous indignation against ‘the devil and his angels from hell’ supposing that if we can only bind them then people would stop sinning. 

[Hebrews 12:4-6] You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him; for those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives.”

Jesus said to the adulterous woman, “From now on sin no more” (John 8:11). What, so simple? Do we have the power? All of us do. Try it. It works. 

THE TRAP OF DECEPTION

We must understand that any doubt is actually a belief but in illusion in superstition and false things; that is why there isn’t much room left for the gift of faith. People search for self-suiting religion, because the God of the Bible is not up to their high humanistic standards. ‘God can’t kill anyone and He must be nice.’ So they stumble upon mixtures of Hinduism, Buddhism and Esoteric Theosophy. The immensity of these unattainable lectures makes their heads spin. In this spin they hunger for more of the same blaming themselves for not achieving yet that lofty level of grasping, which their teachers have already achieved and are supposedly practicing. They don’t know that those teachers are as lost as their students. The teacher’s spin makes your head spin with the same kind of illusion they propagate. Blind guides make their students blind also; together they celebrate their imagined sight. There is such a thing as being given over to our own wants and desires, which in turn produce a delusional altered states (Romans 1:24-28). These altered states are very pleasurable to the soul and to the flesh. Once the clarity of mind is compromised the mind will follow lusts of the flesh, lusts of the eyes and the pride of life without a restrain or moral code. 

THE GREATR SELF

An expression like the “greater self” is already a sign of deception, for self-identity is only for our physical shells, for time and locale and never for the inner man. The inner spiritual man belongs to the Creator, but if one says that he is God than where is that god when he dies? The “greater self” is no God or a god, for it did not create itself and the Almighty God has no self. Anything God says is through His Firstborn Son, and the Son can’t do anything without the Father, just as the Father does nothing without the Holy Spirit or without angels. That’s just plain. The Father has no self-identity, the Son does not, Holy Spirit does not, nor the angels. This perfect selfless cooperation and harmony; in perfect peace that surpasses any earthly understanding is beyond self. Hence, where is the attainment to, or a discovery of the so-called greater self? Am I pounding on you? – Oh no my friend, I don’t, I have for years pounded on myself and those willing to recognize this tricky human nature of ours will greatly benefit from this “relentless pounding.”

When that holy space in our minds is already cluttered with something self-seeking and self-exultation the result is pompousness, which God opposes and even seeks to destroy. History shows that God dethroned many monarchs who took themselves for gods, for “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before stumbling” (Proverbs 16:18). God abhors those who seek within themselves godhood and when they lick a bit of knowledge they call themselves gods, saying that ‘what man is now God once was so we are on the way of becoming God.’ Little they know about self-nullification, for self is fleshly. And little they know about the fact that once you are gone you become one with God and your self-identity becomes then a God-identity, just as angels are in complete subordination to the Almighty. There is no escaping from God and His rules. Angels have no self-identity; and from themselves they can do nothing. Jesus said that ‘of Himself He can do nothing’ (John 5:19, 30) and after resurrection we would be like angels (Matthew 12:25). 

THE TWILIGHT ZONE

When someone does not believe in miracles the answer is simple: he or she does not act upon an empty space in the head, but upon that which fights against and opposes this belief. It is almost a natural reaction to mock those who do believe, scorn miracles and the Miracle Worker Himself.

Now, lets examine the other possibility. Let’s assume that we won’t find even one person that is seduced by illusion, someone with an absolute faith in the Almighty God. Let us say that these people prove this reality through their conduct. The result is obvious; all doors are shut and no illusion is able to come in. Now, if one person violates this divide, forsakes the truth and wants to profit from illusion; and then leads others astray; then such becomes an instrument of illusion. Such a person becomes an image of falsehood; his or her followers then become illusion’s emissaries. And if the numbers grow then those false beliefs multiply (each fruit carries also a seed) and all of a sudden the God-created angel (Satan) has an army of missionaries and, in a cryptic sense, even worshippers. They will of course deny it, yet they cannot explain the fact that while they believe in the Almighty and Sovereign God subconsciously they are afraid that while they serve God Satan is there to deceive them. As if one leg is stuck in darkness and the other in light… yes they seem to be stuck in the twilight zone. 

[1 Timothy 4:1-2] But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron…

When witchcraft, occultism and spiritism is practiced dead spirits fill the mediums and through them those that subject themselves to that practice. Those spirits are the unclean spirits, or demons, which Jesus cast out. If that demon is of the Kenite kind, such will lie and is even unable to tell the truth. Demons never tell the truth because they are stuck in a realm of no progress. 

THE POWER OF THE NOW

Let me shock you a bit. Anything dead and brought up through witchcraft or occult means or in spiritistic séances belongs to the realm of no time. However, when that past entity conjoins with a medium—a now living person—that entity to a certain degree will keep the living in bondage. As a result the living has difficulties progressing and growing in the Lord. For inexplicable reasons such one hates any change. Such people, even entire families, sit in churches and assume leadership roles just to hinder all progress. The same is in governments where even minimal progress is allowed. As the word conservative suggests, people live in the past conserving the good old days, but can day? This is a typical sign of demonic presence, which carries resentments, hatreds and constant frustrations. There is really nothing to disagree with here, this is the truth, for however you want to go about it; no progress means no movement, and no movement means standstill, which in turn means death. In order to change this one must truly repent for the sins of his or her forefathers; cleanse the tree’s roots, and then be freed from these past-life entities and then live in the now, which ushers us all into the future. When we plan to go for a high-class party we dress up, but we dress up now for something that comes later. The same is with our walk with God. 

[Psalms 95:7-8; Hebrews 3:15] Today, if you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.

It is still TODAY and RIGHT NOW. Wisdom calls for our change now and no later, for the now brings in brighter future. So what that you have figured out the Book of Revelations? So what that you took yourself on an eschatological trip and others with you? You have used the old elements of your cognizance for you do not know yet the revelational mind-blowing intelligence, which is reserved for those who hear now. A mind stuck in the past shows signs of demonic bondage; and a speculating mind brooding in the future is naked and destitute. The greatest wisdom is always in the now for we never worry about now but always about tomorrow. Jesus told us to ‘leave tomorrow alone allowing it to worry about itself’ (Matthew 6:34). Yes, our delusional insecurity grabs those broken ores in a sinking boat.       

FEAR & DOCTRINES OF DEMONS

One sincere lady told me that in one of her deliverance services people possessed with demons told everyone that Satan gave them the power to make people ill with diseases like HIV/AIDS. Those naive people believed them and naturally were not only timidly impressed, but by being scarred they have subjugated themselves to those lies (Job 3:25). 

Either these verses of 1Timothy 4:1-2 are not known or are completely ignored. What are the doctrines of demons? – Well, as already stated, when you talk with demons you talk with an entity that is stuck in no-time regions in which a forward progress or reversal—which a repentance like action really is—is not possible. To better understand it the reader must embrace the simple clarity of truth, which transcends all realms and time. 

Are you still with me? Now that we have the background information and that component is solid, lets move on to the process of linking them, which will show us the entire truth about demons. 

Doctrines of demons are created when someone actually talks with demons. Someone authoritatively taught that we must know the name of a demon before we can cast it out, referring to the Gerasene demoniac possessed with a legion (Matthew 8). Jesus supposedly spoke to the demon asking ‘what is your name’ rather than simply addressing the man, it is from this presumption that a mind-seducing doctrine evolved. The sensationalism driven desire itches to find out what those demons were really like. Furthermore, our mind assumes that these demons are supposedly Lucifer’s fallen angels, or even giants—which would be closer to the truth. Indeed, anything that once lived and died and then was brought up, even a giant can possess a person. Taking up Satan himself, binding all of his fallen angels or even spirits of giants indeed produces an ego thrilling sensation, but such presumption has caused us to deviate from the truth and God’s straight way. As Paul states in Ephesians 4:23 it is time for us to be “renewed in the spirit of our mind.” 

These demons are liars and speak nothing else but lies. Anything referred to current events is true for straight reporting is not sensationalized like the Tabloid papers do. Unregulated tabloids sell better than the newspapers—which are regulated. Gossip sells better than the straight and honest truth. These are the well-cherished and loved illusions, which only entertain. But when it comes to the preaching and teaching of God’s Truth we often—being seduced with this entertaining tattle—step on a slippery slope and fall dragging others into the same. 

Again, anything dead is stuck in the realm of no time. Demons cannot speak intelligently, but use the vocal chords of the living to blabber something like “legion” because a Roman legion died in a grisly bloodshed. I have been involved in the deliverance ministry and was told (by the Holy Spirit) to adhere to the truth like these: 

[Matthew 8:31-32] The demons began to entreat Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.” And He said to them, “Go!” And they came out and went into the swine, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the waters.

Jesus used only one word “Go!” He did not speak with demons for there is nothing one can learn from them for they are indeed unclean. 

[Mark 1:34 And He healed many who were ill with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He was not permitting the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

That act, now frozen in timelessness is the only thing a demon knows. Hence, people fall into psychotic states. [Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality that usually includes: false beliefs about what is taking place or one is delirious seeing or hearing things that are not there.] Those engaged in the deliverance ministry believe to be dealing with demons, but often it is only an emotional psychosis. We must follow the acts of Jesus and have His ministry for when we are free of self we become empty channels ready to be filled with something higher than self. It seems easier to follow what another preacher said rather than follow Master Jesus.  

[1 Timothy 4:2]…in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and (MAKING) doctrines of demons… 

THE FAITH

Have you connected the logical components yet? If not then let me “tighten the screws” now. 

• When someone talks to a demon (asking for a name or conversing with) gets polluted. Jesus never carried a conversation with demons, not even once. This is point number one and most important. He never permitted demons to speak. He commanded them to be quiet, and then instantly cast them out. I imagine that this happened within a single minute of time. Why? Those possessed by demons go through terrible suffering and Jesus healed and delivered after his heart was filled with compassion (Matthew 14:14). 
• When demons speak they always tell a lie, NOT to be believed or taken as the truth because they do not belong in the living, neither in the now. 
• When the given information is believed to be true one also passes this deceit onto others. 
• When that deception is broadcasted as being true, then those who are already in a sensational mindset are propagating sensationalism instead of sober truth. 
• Seduction with illusion becomes a stronghold, which is hard to part with. 
• Thus the doctrines of demons are created and propagated.
• The gift of faith, one of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit, finds no place in such; hence, the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith. 

‘THE’ faith is not ‘A’ faith. It is not of our own making, but rather a divine gift from above. There must be an honorable room created for this kind of faith, which must be free of all pollutants and false beliefs. Only humans can produce false beliefs, seducing themselves as well as others. God’s faith is royal, heavenly and potent beyond our imaginations. 

[Luke 18:8] However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find (the original Greek text reads THE FAITH, “pistis” truth or truthfulness) faith on the earth? 

God’s faith roams the earth looking for a dwelling place. Will this kind of faith find a lodging in you? That’s the reason why Jesus said, “Will the Son of Man find the faith on earth” (…) when He returns? Our language has also changed, we call religion faith, this faith or another faith, but why? – Because these are man made faiths and not the faith of God the gift. As a result we feel incompatible with that gift and we remain dumbfounded when this kind of faith is being mentioned. Illusion remains as long as we do not want to dethrone it, but how? – We can easily let it go by letting go of control and self. Let go of your self-manufactured ideas and then as an empty vessel open your heart to the inflow of His revelational and liberating knowledge.

FRAGMENTATION 

The reason the letters of Paul, Peter, James, Jude and John contained sometimes fragmented and confusing information was to accommodate the Greek mythological mind. Judaic teachings have become too complex. Having inherited the Persian dualism, to a certain extent, helped the apostles for they were able to navigate in the pagan jungle of plural beliefs by alluding to any malevolent cosmic beings. Those allusions, as it is today, were nothing more than attention grabbers. But God reserved the final reformation for the last days right before the advent of Christ’s return.

The Jewish Aggadah and Cabbala deal with demons. Upon realizing the danger that the so-called deeper teachings posed to people, later in time these writings were written in a concealed manner. But that stirred even more curiosity. Those so-called secrets of Satan (propagated in Thyatira of Revelations 2:24) seduced a mind that has been prone to study of evil in many forms. These teachings were guarded and were not made too be easily accessible to those deemed as being of corrupt character or were untrained in the Torah. Cabbala teaches keys, which when they are supposedly used should unlock some dark secrets. Therefore, Cabbala is a mind seducing literature for it gives its students a sense of awe and in time also self-importance just because one knows while another remains in ignorance. 

Since I am quite familiar with Cabbala, I know both. A mind seduced with these mystical things refuses to use a rational thought and then come back to his or her senses for by then (first a mild form of) craziness is too pleasurable to give it up. The euphoric state of knowing something secret makes people dream. Once this mild form of craziness is being fed it leads to a complete detachment from reality where “yes” means yes and where “no” means no. 

Today, many Cabbalists are in mental asylums; and that’s the “reward” for studying the realm of illusion. No intelligent person would ever read about keys that supposedly unlock some densely layered secrets of a vaulted and locked darkness. One must have first some predispositions to even brood in this twaddle for one imagines and another unlocks or unravels, but only someone else’s flowery imagination. Based on that, fibs and tales are constantly being invented; and the time wasted on them is then lost forever. The time interval where truth can be found then shrinks even more for the realm of illusion gained the stage and refuses to leave it. 

THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

Between the knowledge of good and evil illusion is found, but illusion does not need to be studied at all, neither evil, but only the Truth and the light, which quite naturally reveals everything. By then the gray area of illusion no longer seduces, and by then lies find no foothold in you. That’s how simple it is.   

All laws have loopholes from which we have the gray market and which is not illegal or immoral, but only to take advantage of, and many do. The same is with illusion, which serves as a tool, cloak or a veil, if you will, in which lies can be wrapped and disguised. 

There has to be something more appealing in order to dissuade one from following this world of darkness and its supposed secrets. Lovers of the Truth are lovers of light. That’s how simple it is. And by these dimensions God decides as to who is of light, and who is of darkness; who inherits the kingdom and who does not. This world is one big test. Only His seed will emerge triumphant thus augment their Creator’s glory. We are here to become glorious and be one with our Maker (John 17:22). Oh what a blessed discovery this is! I rejoice that I know who I am! I am ecstatic and so privileged to be His seed and know my way!  

    

STAGES OF REFORMATION

When the initial stages of reformation are complete other stages will follow. After the third stage; and after all things are clear; and any remaining superstitious elements are removed; one then rests and finds true peace. In that rest one begins to redirect one’s thoughts and emotions. After those two factors (truth & illusion) are comprehended and firmly established in you, only then you will begin to understand God and His kingdom, which results in spiritual growth. 

An unhindered, calm and sound mind helps us reach the heights of God’s holiness and overcome any an obstacle. Eventually one will part with any sin-consciousness, and stops hurting self and others. Pride melts, and the earthly self-identity with all its material and passing attachments fades away. One receives a clear mind and a pure heart. One then is born of the Spirit and begins to move like wind. No one can control such, or define with any standardized or organized formats, religious or otherwise. Those who are born of God sin no more for they are not even able to (1John 5:18). The one of whom they were conceived and brought forth—as God’s sons and daughters—keeps them. We become like angels again, but triumphant and glorious because we have overcome many if not all obstacles, which our physical bodies and the material environment set before us.